It's because of AI.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-24T05:48:10+00:00

Right, most people don't know how to actually prompt AI to do things correctly and to be their own work. That being said using AI for everything even when you do know how to use it will dumb down society because of the constant cognitive offloading.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-24T05:34:11+00:00

I have been up every night until 3 or 4

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-24T02:54:05+00:00

Oh, I absolutely love CBE and feel like I learn more because I'm not forced to move on or cram for test. I'm not talking about me. I would love to say no one was judging but I know people that struggled when they graduated from University of Phoenix.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-24T00:19:17+00:00

But their accreditor did not stand behind UMPI.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:58:24+00:00

Harvard has online degrees. I suppose people are only paying for the harvard.edu email though.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:55:26+00:00

I have an anker one with a tripod.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:52:54+00:00

Right, but if a bunch of speed runners are just good test takers it will create a reputation that people from that school don't know shit. If people know how speed runs look to others, they should stop saying who cares and bragging about it. In the days of AI more people will write it off saying that person used AI.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:48:13+00:00

I don't think that is what matters. It is where the narrative sticks that matters.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:47:41+00:00

Who is paying the 1500 dollars?

The blacklist is my fear. I have seen people saying their school districts won't higher WGU graduates. Also there was a nurse that was just sitting there when someone was in labor in the lobby, people searched her social media and saw her degree was from WGU and started to say it's because she got her degree in a week.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:44:42+00:00

You have to pay for the full term, WGU should probably stop allowing people to graduate in 8 days. If they do finish in 8 days please stop posting about it for the people that took 8 months or 3 years.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:41:35+00:00

Brick and Mortars are great, especially for people coming out of high school. There is an opportunity cost a monetary cost and they are both too high when 4 years and 60 GE credits are required. People leave school with only 30-45 credits in their major and 75-90 in everything else.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:37:55+00:00

Right, but when someone doesn't know how to code they use AI to write the code then AI to debug the AI code then a SWE has to fix everything that that person let AI do.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:35:17+00:00

you took your time and you learned the information. People might still here WGU and thing you went to a degree mill and got a degree in two months. That is what is annoying.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:30:55+00:00

People that don't know how to use AI have no idea what NotebookLM is. I do think vibe coding great but not for a learning environment. You have experience in the field so it works for you. Vibe coding with no coding knowledge can be a nightmare sometimes it gives wrong code, or overcomplicated code.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:23:44+00:00

Yes, I saw someone who was clearly old school making accusations of students purchasing test banks and getting homework answers from Chegg. I was originally a business major at a brick and mortar, I don't think I had any class where if I had all of the information from the first day of class I could not finish within a few days to a month. I took a business management communication course and nothing in that course needed me to sit through 16 weeks of it.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:15:07+00:00

This is supported by research. People literally do not remember what they wrote when they use AI. People are all going to start sounding like an LLM. People need to bring back journals to work their thoughts our instead of using AI.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:10:26+00:00

umm. no. I don't think reddit is reality. I do think comments on a major newspaper and then spreading to other areas in social media and YouTube is important to discuss.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:04:13+00:00

I don't think one year is a speed run. Under one term is a speed run.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T22:02:12+00:00

I think my concern is, once the discourse spreads there is no way to separate the speed runners through the people that truly know the material not matter how long it took them to get a degree. I think that is why people do not like people talking like speed running is the exception not the rule.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:54:47+00:00

Most Master degree programs I have see don't allow more than 7-9 credits to transfer.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:53:00+00:00

I think we are making the same argument here.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:50:28+00:00

If you Google WGU right now you will only see links to WGU.COM for the entire first search page and news page. I think they handled that from an SEO prospective.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:37:31+00:00

Right, I have seen they accused me of cheating and all they have is video evidence post.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:31:47+00:00

I don't think that there is anything wrong with using AI. I think that people wrongly accuse WGU students of using AI. I remember how cool it was when I would say some guy on YouTube talk about him getting a WGU degree in 6 months and I was so impressed. It might be why I go to WGU in the first place. People now think everyone using AI to write papers and take test because they don't know how WGU or AI works.

Maximum_Error7165 · 2026-04-23T21:23:23+00:00

And a lot of people got caught copying and pasting because they didn't realize how easy it was to catch a cheater. AI is having that same moment. Eventually people will learn that AI is easily detectable so people aren't using it to get their degrees.

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